Innovative Thinking Contracts in the Midlands

Innovative Thinking
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Innovative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 157 204
Rank change year-on-year +28 +47 -50
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 7 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.25% 0.20% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile £269 - £493
25th Percentile £275 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - +67.86%
75th Percentile £458 - £600
90th Percentile £494 - £623
England median daily rate £500 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.64% +39.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Innovative Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,271 3,038 4,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.16% 88.37% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,515 2,118 3,285
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £567
90th Percentile £700 £677 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 118 151
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.94 £10.00
25th Percentile £13.71 £15.02 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.47 £22.05
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.13 £34.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Innovative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Innovative Thinking in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Innovative Thinking in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Innovative Thinking in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Innovative Thinking within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +28 5 £300 - 11
East Midlands +17 2 £488 - 7
Innovative Thinking
England

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
1 2 (28.57%) Power Query
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (28.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Data Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Data Collection
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Interpretation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Ariba
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) VMware